Search Results: arbitration
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 15 June 2012
'My partner Johan gives me a rough time. He says the church has always been horrible to gays; why do you have anything to do with it? But I don't want any old gent in frocks to take my religion from me.' Former High Court Justice Kirby is a practicing Christian and one of Australia's best known openly homosexual citizens.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Lawrence
- 01 November 2011
9 Comments
The Qantas industrial dispute is likely to make a major contribution to the history of Australian industrial relations. The important issue is whether Qantas should have been required to threaten substantial damage to itself and to the national economy before it could gain access to arbitration.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack de Groot
- 28 October 2011
6 Comments
If every economic decision has a moral consequence then the voice of the most marginalised should be amplified in economic discussions. CHOGM provides an opportunity to devise new solutions based on justice and compassion.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Sarah Burnside
- 17 August 2011
8 Comments
Opponents of workplace regulation are well-resourced and powerful. In order to meet them head-on, the Government must do more than invoke the value of hard work. After all, if work automatically confers great dignity, what does it matter that conditions are unsatisfactory?
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Lawrence
- 17 February 2011
10 Comments
Despite extensive welfare activities, Catholics have made only a modest contribution to public debate about the economic foundations of family life. Yet the Australian institution that is most associated in the public mind with 'pro-family' policies is the Catholic Church.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity
Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July
2010.
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EDUCATION
- Vic O'Callaghan
- 01 February 2010
4 Comments
Brian was in tears. A sheen of skin had been removed from his right
knee and his left hand was grazed. Michael was into his mantra
of accidental cause — 'He tripped over my foot' — while Sam stuttered in astonishment: he'd seen Michael deliberately push
Brian off the handball line.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 18 May 2009
6 Comments
The public thinks rugby league star Matthew Johns behaved disgracefully in the 2002 Christchurch group sex incident. He has done nothing wrong in the eyes of the law. He needs to imagine that he is on his deathbed and then ask 'what would I like to have done?'
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank O'Shea
- 29 April 2009
If you can find a person who can execute a Reverse Squeeze or a Scissors Coup at the bridge table, chances are they will be able to carry out equivalent manoeuvres in a loving relationship.
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AUSTRALIA
- Chris Perkins
- 21 November 2007
2 Comments
The union movement in Australia has fought hard to protect Australians' rights to equal pay for equal work, without discrimination. However the Howard Government's Work Choices legislation seems to have undermined this.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Button
- 16 April 2007
4 Comments
The social policies of the Australia's past worked reasonably well in protecting people from serious poverty. But now we require new policies providing a similar sense of security and contemporary relevance.
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AUSTRALIA
- Troy Bramston
- 09 July 2006
The annual release of the once secret cabinet papers on New Year’s Day is now a political ritual. After 30 years, the public is able to look at cabinet’s deliberations on weighty matters, which have been kept under lock and key for a generation.
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